This article discusses the historical trajectories of employment research in the U.S. and Germany. Both countries exemplify very different research traditions, which have their origins in the 19th and early 20th century and are shaped not only by the field of inquiry (different national...

Tief greifende gesellschaftliche Strukturwandlungen haben die Erscheinungs- und Wirkungsweise der Arbeitsbeziehungen nachhaltig verändert und differenziert. Nach einer Übersicht arbeitsrelevanter Problembereiche im gesellschaftlichen Kontext werden ausgehend von den Grundinteressen arbeitender...

Der Begriff "Arbeit" hat im Marx'schen Werk einen deutlichen Wandel vollzogen. In seiner Frühphilosophie verband Marx eine Aufhebung der Arbeit mit dem Übergang zu einer kommunistischen Gesellschaft. Mit der Ausarbeitung seines Hauptwerkes "Das Kapital" sagte er dagegen, dass Arbeit eine...

We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...

I conducted an audit study in Yangon, Myanmar, to examine the effects of foreign labor market experience on employment outcomes in the Myanmar labor market focusing on three skilled occupation groups-software developer, accountant, and engineer-which combined account for more than 80% of all...

There is potential for measurement problems in both retrospective and panel microdata. In this paper, we compare results on basic indicators related to labor markets and their dynamics from retrospective and panel survey data in Egypt, in order to determine the conditions under which results are...

We measure differences between altruism toward a family member and toward an unknown foreigner using hypothetical questions in internet surveys across five countries: Germany, the US, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. Our analysis shows that people in all five countries exhibit greater...

This paper aims at the evaluation of the reform of vocational education introduced in 1998 in Hungary. The reform extended the duration of education by one year, and increased teaching time spent on non-vocational subjects. The reform affected two of the three tracks in upper-secondary education...

As suggested by recent empirical evidence, one of the causes behind the widespread rise of inequality experienced by OECD countries in the last few decades may have been the increased flexibility of labor markets. The authors explore this hypothesis through the analysis of a stock-flow...

This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...